The Corbett administration said today that it's reached a final, 4-year agreement with some nearly 3,000 unionized state liquor store employees that imposes a one-year wage freeze on those workers, among other concessions.

The agreement with Local 1776 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union also cuts two days' worth of sick leave and increases employee health care contributions from 3 percent to 5 percent in the fourth year of the agreement.

It's retroactive to last July and was ratified by the union in June.

In addition, the agreement also imposes a 4 percent increase in base pay over the life of the contract, compared to a 10 percent increase plus a $1,250 cash payment that was included in the previous contract, the administration said.

The deal will save the state an estimated $28.5 million over the lifetime of the agreement, Secretary of Administration Kelly Powell Logan said in a statement. The agreement covers 2,800 liquor store clerks, Negotiations with the Independent State Store Union, which represents about 700 additional PA Liquor Control Board employees are ongoing, she said.

In its statement, the administration said the agreement does not prevent the state from pursuing the possible privatization of the 600-branch state liquor store system. That point was argued vigorously earlier this summer during the failed push to privatize the stores.